Ferrari Mailing List: Re: So someone out there tell me what’s so special about these cars.......

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

WOW – that does look like the Laguna Seca track backside on the way up the hill to the cork screw – but going for the photo shoot the cars are pointed the wrong way on the track.

 

If it is Laguna – I recall racing there when there were no protective walls to keep an errant driver from hot rodding over the side and on the way to Salinas.  Likewise – in the ‘70’s – since Laguna Seca was located on Fort Ord property, there were all sorts of back roads a curious person could explore on a week end and get on the track! 

 

One such fellow was a friend of mine who was telling me his experience.  He and his friend in his ’71 or so 911 snuck onto the track and blasted around a bit.  Joe was telling me about driving down this section of the track where all the GTO’s on pictured and says that Laguna Seca folks (SCRAMP) have a sense of humor – how’s that I ask Joe – oh, at the bottom of the hill they painted on the left side of the track “ON-ON” . . . . Ohhh sez I – uh, Joe, you guys were going the wrong direction - backwards and if you had been going the correct direction, counter-clock wise (on an analog clock of course) what you would see was a warning to drivers – “NO-NO” on the outside of track before you went into the oak trees.  Course workers hated fishing out those off-road racers – Ft Ord was known to be the mecca for poison oak.  The gift that keeps on giving.  And to fish a car out of that stuff invariably left a long memory of the weekend.

 

Anyway, that’s a great picture Rick – thanks.

 

Onward

Doug

 

From: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:10 PM
To: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: 'The FerrariList' <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] So someone out there tell me what’s so special about these cars.......

 

When I was active, racing at the historics, I remember sitting around bench racing one evening by a fire pit at the Barnyard (?) and Chris Darling's wife came over and stood and listened to us for about 2 minutes.  She then pestered Chris for the rental car keys and then made sure everyone was looking... and said "Silly boys, a car is merely something to get you to the jewelry store!" Threw her head back and walked away.   Greg Whitten had just paid $7M for his 250 GTO... bargain price looking back.   Bruce McCaw's brother (forget his name was talking to Greg and he really was on the hunt for a 250 GTO.  He finally got one but paid $35M for his 250GTO...  still a bargain by today's numbers.   I think it will be a while before Dave McNeil's $70M gets topped.

I still remember the days when the Bugatti Royales fetched the highest money... and there are only 6 of them.

 

Here ya go Doug...  

 

 

 

On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 2:41:38 PM PST, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

 

 

And when they’re not racing – they are out cruising.  Hubby and wife and a bunch of other Euro GTO family’s go on a long trip – castle to castle.  Quite a thing.  Half way through – half of the wives had had it with the noise, no floor boards, oil smell, noise and twisting roads.  They selfishly decide to take the family jet to the next stop.  No Denise McCluggage’s there.

 

And then there was the time at the Monterey Historics where more than 20 GTO’s were on the Laguna Seca track at the same time.  It was easy to count the money – nothing over 10 mil.

 

Doug